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A receipt addressed to the grain collectors (sitologoi) of Karanis acknowledging an advance of seed grain for the 22nd year of Antoninus (Pius), with the plots of land to be sown listed by village and category. It comes from the Arsinoite nome in the mid-2nd century AD.
Seed advances were repaid after the harvest with an addition for interest and costs. Several abbreviations (the cleruchy name, 'Petheus', the fractions) are uncertain in reading and interpretation.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Grain receipt). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Receipt given to the sitologoi (village grain collectors) by a farmer for an advance of seed-corn issued to enable him to sow the lands assigned him. The distribution was made in the late autumn, and probably at the rate of one artaba of grain for each aroura of land. These adv…
σιτολόγοις Καρανίδος ἔσχον προσφωνήσας χειρογραφίᾳ σπερμάτων κβ ἔτους Ἀντωνείνου Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου ιϛ κληρουχίας Μυσθαρίων Πεθέως Κερκεσούχων προσόδου ἀρουρῶν δ δ Καρανίδος Σενεκιανῆς ἀρουρῶν δ λβ Ψεναρψενήσεως βασιλικῆς ἀρουρῶν δ 𐅵 δ η
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